Welcome to DeSmogBlog's portal to our coverage of fracking and the unconventional oil and gas industry.
To view every article that DeSmog has published about fracking, please visit this string of posts (125 items and growing).
Below is a selection of some of our key coverage of the fracking industry:
Fracking The Future: How Unconventional Gas Threatens Our Water, Health and Climate - DeSmog's full-length report about fracking.
Gas Industry's Use of PSYOPS military psychological warfare tactics on U.S. soil - DeSmog's investigation into the gas industry's troubling intimidation campaign.
Frac Sand - a collection of articles related to the mining of sand for use in hydraulic fracturing.
Shale Gas Exports - a collection of articles related to exportation of fracked gas in the form of LNG (liquefied natural gas)
Shale Gas Bubble - a collection of articles related to the a prospective "shale gas bubble" akin to the 2008 "housing bubble"
Fracking Climate Impacts - DeSmog's coverage of the "Cornell Study," which showed shale gas extraction is dirtier than coal from a crade-to-grave lifecycle standpoint
Shale Gas "Bridge Fuel" - Our coverage of shale gas as a "bridge" leading off the climate change cliff
Shale Gas-powered Vehicles - Our coverage of T. Boone Pickens and others' promotion of shale gas-powered vehicles
Additional fracking information from around the web:
New York Times series on fracking - Drilling Down
ProPublica series on Fracking: Gas Drilling's Environmental Threat
ProPublica timeline of notable U.S. government actions on fracking: From Gung-Ho to Uh-Oh: Charting the Government’s Moves on Fracking
"Gasland," the Academy Award-nominated documentary film
"Split Estate," a documentary film about fracking
"Triple Divide," another documentary film about fracking
Democracy is utterly dependent upon an electorate that is accurately informed. In promoting climate change denial (and often denying their responsibility for doing so) industry has done more than endanger the environment. It has undermined democracy.
There is a vast difference between putting forth a point of view, honestly held, and intentionally sowing the seeds of confusion. Free speech does not include the right to deceive. Deception is not a point of view. And the right to disagree does not include a right to intentionally subvert the public awareness.
"Gasland 2" screened yesterday in Normal, IL and DeSmogBlog was there to gain a sneak peak of the documentary set for a July 8 HBO national premiere.
Josh Fox's documentary played at the Normal Theater, the second-ever screening since the film officially premiered on April 21...
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